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Does anyone else think that they look stupid?
we’re actually very liberal
Mr Burns (seated) and Smithers.
You are out for blood this morning
What maniac hangs out around the house in a goddamn suit and tie?
Also knee-high boots in the living room while playing with her kids.
Where are the bed sheets?
Also, where are the family photos? Framed art? Kid drawings?
the kids have to thunderdome it out for recognition, and then they have to pay for the photos with their own money that they earned in their weekend jobs (you know, the ones they get to do after their homejobs all week). just like in a perfectly normal family!
The children yearn for the mines
absolutely staggered me when I found out that post was unironic
I didn’t know it wasn’t ironic until this comment
Ya, I looked up that guys feed and it was all frog posting. Like literally 50% frogs and 50% white woman sieg hieling
Edit3: I’ve never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It’s the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.
I came here the other day to post this. Just bizarre.
But with jeans on!?
my husband and I are just trying to repopulate the world
That guy sits like he’s allergic to the back of chairs.
He looks like a dog that’s just been shown a treat.
You can’t see it but he has a biscuit balanced on his nose.
Something something poker up his backside.
Serious business about serious stuff.
When I played dress up in my grandparents ancient clothes, it was the posture I would take so people would take me seriously. But I have changed a lot since last week.
Both of them require glasses. I guess the master race has astigmatism.
as well as boot nazis and tie nazis, I propose a third classification: horrible locker-friendly dweebs like this
again. NOT Nazis.
Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance
@sc_griffith everything they can spare except for what they spend on makeup, expensive glasses, leather knee boots and pocket squares?
This is a look at us aesthetic and I’m worried about the child she will no doubt film being delivered while she’s leaning on the kitchen table with her I don’t believe in hot water husband catching it as it comes out.
I wonder how Puerperal sepsis fits in with her lifestyle, it being authentic and all.Why are you posting stills of Man in the High Castle to sneerclub, I don’t get it
It’s true though. They’re not nazis. They’re incapable of being fired by any fundamentally political or spiritual ideals, no matter how ultimately black and nihilistic, at all. Even if these people were full-throated card-carrying members of the American Nazi party marching through Times Square with a swastika flag throwing out copies of Der Sturmer from a Panzer tank they wouldn’t be nazis. The fact is that they’re just the purest distillation of 20th-21st century media culture yet: they’re so utterly saturated in media that the only choice they’ve made, the only choice available to them, was whether to lean into the goodie or the baddie vibe, and they plumped for “baddie” because it suited their contrarian aesthetic and then, without even leaving a ripple on the surface, they slipped into the role and inhabited it so thoroughly that it is, literally, indistinguishable from who they are.
These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is “Nazi.”
I’m saying this goes further!
I didn’t miss it. I just don’t see any need to be elaborate about the word nazi, although I do appreciate what a crushingly insulting description of them you gave
Paraphrasing Santayana, we must understand why people become fascist, or else we will not understand how to prevent ourselves from making the same mistakes of dehumanization and black-and-white reasoning which characterize their piss-poor attempts at logic.
Scholars of fascism and nazism do it all the time! The target of quotes like that is supposed to be those who deliberately muddy the waters. The “call a nazi a nazi” principle is a blunt instrument, and there are other tools in the anti-nazi kit.
p-zombies, but nazis
Dead Snow, but more pee
Oops:
Dead Yellow Snow
“Not Like Us” was less scathing than this. Fucking hell.
These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.
I’m pretty certain I get more glee from my RP than they ever experienced in their lives.
you would never see a scene like this in a Nazi household
Reaching through my screen into this photo so I can pull out the rifle and shoot myself
Who thought it would be a good idea to keep that in a household with 3 kids under 5. Is it just so they can flash it at Republicans and win primary votes??
note non-fiction Chekhov’s gun on the mantel
it kinda looks like turkish over/under, not very patrotic of them (cheapest in category)
complete with the least stable-looking, most crooked display stand I’ve ever seen
ok so this is driving me crazy
am I weird for thinking the circle of candles in the fireplace (in a house that’s allegedly unbearably cold) is weird?
It’s weird, but it’s normal weird. It’s the kind of thing you see in design magazines and pinterest and the spruce. I don’t know if actual rich people do it but it’s definitely fairly normal middlebrow home decor.
(A lot of fireplaces in older US buildings are vestigial, often blocked up, and are inefficient at heating.)
it’s also definitely the sort of shit you see in some midmarket airbnb’s (because it’s in design/pinterest/etc magazines)
The prose on that The Spruce link makes me hate the concepts of design, aesthetics, and houses.
“24 Ideas for Putting Candles in a Fireplace” sounds like a McSweeney’s headline.
is this… are these motherfuckers roleplaying a dril tweet
Fuck this hyperreal composition. Dalí is spinning in his grave.
There’s an actual explanation in the original article about some of the wardrobe choices. It’s even dumber, and it involves effective altruism.
It is a very cold home. It’s early March, and within 20 minutes of being here the tips of some of my fingers have turned white. This, they explain, is part of living their values: as effective altruists, they give everything they can spare to charity (their charities). “Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm. This explains Simone’s clothing: her normal winterwear is cheap, high-quality snowsuits she buys online from Russia, but she can’t fit into them now, so she’s currently dressing in the clothes pregnant women wore in a time before central heating: a drawstring-necked chemise on top of warm underlayers, a thick black apron, and a modified corset she found on Etsy. She assures me she is not a tradwife. “I’m not dressing trad now because we’re into trad, because before I was dressing like a Russian Bond villain. We do what’s practical.”
It’s just practical, don’t worry about it.
have they never heard of this miraculous material called styrofoam
Yes and that’s obviously lies, as anyone who has grown up with limited income in a cold area can tell them. Cheap, warm clothing is not bought online (in the US) from Russia, and never from Etsy. In the US it’s bought — if you’re buying new at all! — from Target or Kohl’s or some other big chain. You get layers, you get things used when you can, and the cheapest way to dress warmly is the most normie, uninteresting clothes that are mass produced and sold in low end department stores.
Nothing they describe is practical or cheap. It’s cosplay Kinder, Küche, Kirche, and the journalist repeated it verbatim because she’s a chump.
But a tie is so cheap and keeps you warm!1!!.
They reek evil impersonators who’ll try to rip people off. Rip vulnerable off.
And I don’t even know who they are.
@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis
When I wanted to know about cold-weather clothing, I asked someone from ND via Minnesota.@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis
Sorry, what is the context of this comment?
Mastodon separated it from whatever it was you are replying to and your words caught my curiosity.
@Phosphenes @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis I had no problem finding the context by clicking on the post. Mastodon web interface. What client are you using?
@gerikson @Phosphenes @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis I too can’t see the context. Mastodon default UI on techhub.social.
If I copy the post link and open in a new tab I see this is hosted on a very different looking UI, with a ‘show context ->’ link which does what it says on the tin.
@gerikson @Phosphenes @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis Oh and *now* if I look at what *was* the top-level toot I could see here I can see the actual context.
Just Mastodon/fediverse being itself I guess ?
@AthanSpod @gerikson @gnomicutterance @Architeuthis
No all software is infallible and you and I are the only crazy ones. 😉
lemmy thread here: https://awful.systems/post/1596726 which spun off from here: https://awful.systems/post/1587716
Thanks!
The context thread has now magically appeared above the post, so I don’t know what the heck is happening in the pipes. Maybe just a really long delay loading, but I ain’t no expert.
yeah, delay-loads in fedi are a thing occasionally
@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis They are abusive idiots and TSTL I grew up in a house heated with wood in N.H. The wood came from our woodlot. Slapping a child is abusive; slapping a two year old is stupid and abusive.
@gnomicutterance @Architeuthis dude find the second hand store the snow birds and skiers dump their shit at and you’re frickin golden for life.
Kinder, Küche, Kosplay?
Grew up in fairly rural upstate New York, where you can expect lots of snow and you can unironically envy neighbors who have working Franklin stoves when the power goes out.
I can confirm all of the above, plus: if you are lucky enough to have an Army-Navy surplus store around, one of your handmedowns is likely to be an N3B parka. Definitely not Russian or German or stylish. But it will keep everything above your thighs warm, except your hands. The pockets are uninsulated.
Oh man, I once bought the most glorious winter coat at an army-navy store. Lightweight, cheap, and so warm.
Once I had money I discovered the glory of high-quality thermals, but if you don’t have money and live in a cold house, you try to keep at least one room warm with a lot of closed doors, plastic on the windows and draft stopper door snakes if the house is drafty, warm socks, layers. Nobody without money is buying pregnancy corsets from Etsy to stay warm, what the shit is that.
Warm clothes instead of heating is great, but they manage to subvert it in a very EA way. The way they talk about it sounds almost Calvinist. I wonder if they have some equivalent of the secret TV in the attic.
There’s no reason to believe they live this way in reality. None of these profiles do any actual journalism. None of them investigate whether their claims about their childhood are true. This one doesn’t even talk to the neighbors who theoretically live next door for free (and do the unpaid childcare). This is stenography of neo-fash influencers self-described life and there’s no reason to believe any of it.
that gives a whole new facet to the meaning of “cold upbringing”.
Whats the context for this? (Sorry if someone mentioned it and I didn’t find it)
Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.
Danke
Whats with the boots?
can’t goosestep without great boots.
He looks like the child Taron Egerton’s Eggsy and Scott Alexander
Maybe if Eggsy’s balls hadn’t dropped and he was raised by a billionaire.
I can’t put my finger on it exactly but the pictures of them give me the impression that they’ve never actually had sex.
Fuck me, is that what Scott Alexander looks like?
He looks like someone handing out cult literature at the airport.
I really don’t like talking shit about people’s looks. but the irony of him talking shit about other people’s genes, my god. this guy looks like the annoying orange fucked a cue ball
Never mind genes, he chose to shave his head like that. Humpty Dumpty
yeah it’s amazing, dude’s got a face like what people would pick “most punchable” in game character design or something
That’s what everybody who’s into HBD looks like
Their body postures completely bely their need to be relevant and noticed.
